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You can improve your covert hypnosis abilities by getting good at inserting confusion into your communication.  You should get good at this just like you should get good at telling great jokes.  What I mean by this is that you don’t go around telling jokes non-stop.  You’ll look like an idiot of you do.  In the same way, you don’t want to walk around speaking in confusion-laden language all hours of the day.  People will just assume you are a moron.  So use this stuff gracefully.

Confusion principles are a way to overload the conscious mind with language that seems to be tough to understand.  As you do this, the critical faculty (sometimes called critical factor), or “guardian of the gate” of your unconscious mind, is temporarily overwhelmed.  When this happens, you can drop suggestions straight into the unconscious mind.

Here is a way to use the confusion technique in ordinary language.  Read this aloud if you want to get the best impact:

“Yesterday I was at a store and I was trying to decide if I should buy this one particular set of shoes.  They were the last pair that was left, and I wasn’t sure if they weren’t the right size for me.  The first store that I visited was the last store that would close at the mall that night, and there were many stores left for me to visit to determine if the right shoe for me would be avaible in the right size, and I didn’t think it would be right for me to go home with just whatever was left, so I wanted to make sure that the right shoe was what I had in my hands, at the end of the trip.  Sometimes the first pair you pick out are the right ones for you but other times the last ones you find are the only ones that are left and they end up being better than the first pair that you weren’t sure were not right for you “

Now – I hope that you found this whole sequence confusing!  That’s the point.  Right in the thick of the confusion you could simply look at the target and say whatever you like (preferably in the form of an embedded command).

In the example above I layered in several confusing items.  I used the word “right” in the context of right/wrong and also right/left.  I mixed them together. I also threw in a variety of uses of the word first/last in varying ways to add more confusion.  Finally I used double negatives such as “I wasn’t sure if they weren’t the right size for me”.  This double negative use really tends to add to the overall confusion.

Now – I’m not sure that you shouldn’t decide not to forget to use this tool when you’re not yet sure if you’ll want to begin to learn covert hypnosis today, or perhaps you’d just like to listen to some great free CDs to help you get started.

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